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March 28, 2026Advanced Science1 citationsOpen Access

Liver‐Targeted Gallium‐Polyphenol Network by Disrupting the ROS/NETs/PANoptosis Axis for Precision Acute Liver Injury Therapy

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XCXiaopeng CaiJHJian HeJDJingwen Deng

Key Points

  • The aim is to explore the role of the ROS/NETs/PANoptosis axis in acute liver injury and to develop a targeted therapy.
  • Conducted multi-omics analyses of clinical databases and patient samples to identify the pathogenic axis.
  • Engineered a liver-targeted gallium-quercetin nanocomposite via coordination-driven self-assembly.
  • Assessed the efficacy of Ga@Que in murine models of liver injury induced by acetaminophen and ischemia-reperfusion.
  • Ga@Que showed significant liver accumulation and effectively scavenged reactive oxygen species.
  • Treatment with Ga@Que suppressed neutrophil infiltration and attenuated NETs formation.
  • Ga@Que significantly mitigated liver damage and inflammation, outperforming individual components.

Abstract

Acute liver injury (ALI), driven by diverse insults such as drug toxicity and ischemia-reperfusion, poses a high mortality risk and lacks targeted therapies. While reactive oxygen species (ROS), neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs), and a coordinated cell death pathway PANoptosis have been implicated, their interplay as a unified pathogenic axis remains elusive. Here, by integrating multi-omics analyses of clinical databases and patient samples, we systematically identified and validated the ROS/NETs/PANoptosis axis as a central driver of hepatocyte damage across multiple ALI etiologies. To therapeutically target this axis, we engineered a liver-targeted gallium-quercetin nanocomposite (Ga@Que) via coordination-driven self-assembly. Ga@Que effectively overcomes the poor bioavailability of natural quercetin. In murine models of acetaminophen-induced and ischemia-reperfusion liver injury, Ga@Que exhibited significant liver accumulation, potently scavenged ROS, suppressed neutrophil infiltration and NETs formation, and attenuated PANoptosis. Consequently, Ga@Que treatment markedly mitigated liver damage and inflammation, outperforming its individual components. Our study not only delineates a novel pathogenic paradigm in ALI but also introduces Ga@Que as a promising precision nanotherapeutic, offering a synergistic and translatable strategy to disrupt this deleterious cascade.

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Cai et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69c7724e8bbfbc51511e2a15https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202524135
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